ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,734, issued on June 17, was assigned to Fox Factory Inc. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Active suspension and body wearable device integration" was invented by Everet Owen Ericksen (Woodland, Calif.), Wesley E. Allinger (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Evan Peterson (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active suspension system with body wearable device integration is disclosed. The system includes a prosthetic having a shock assembly with at least one active valve and a controller communicatively coupled with the at least one active valve of the shock assembly, the controller configured to communicate damping adjustment information to the ...